At 1:05 PM -0700 7/20/01, Gordon Hawley wrote:
>Hello:
>
>I plan on upgrading my 8500/180 during the next few weeks and I had some
>questions.
>
>1) I have all eight ram slots filled with 16MB dimms. Two of these are the
>original Apple memory, which I assume runs at 70ns. The other six dimms
>are Newer Technology 60ns. Obviously all this ram is interleaved. I plan
>on adding a 450MHz G3 card from Sonnet. I've heard that sometimes people
>have to de-interleave their ram when adding G3 cards. What is other
>people's experience with this? Could the 70ns ram cause me trouble?
<snip>
I have the same 8500 with a Sonnet G3/400/1M. It works just fine with
my memory interleaved. A Sonnet tech told me they have a new design
that is resistant to interleaving issues. Thanks to their recently
hired Newer engineers.
Don't pay too much attention to people who go on about needing to use
60ns DIMMS, although there's probably not much difference in price
these days. I've had 2 16MB 70ns DIMMS (stock Apple) interleaved
since day-one, and with the G3/400. The remaining memory consists of
2 64MB 60ns DIMMS also interleaved. So, before buying too much new
RAM, try the 70ns DIMMS first.
_
Andrew
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